Etymologies

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This moderation and balance is precisely what makes the new Greens dangerous for the established "Volksparteien" "people's parties", a term historically reserved for the CDU/CSU and SPD, but which the highbrow weekly Die Zeit suggested should now be applied to the environmentalist movement as well.

Deploying a term historically used for Western sympathisers of the Soviet Union, a former participant on one of Cao de Benos's tours to North Korea describes him as a "perfect example of the 'useful idiot'".

Even if science does not have faith in a rational universe, it certainly presupposes that a universe exists, and that something rather than nothing exists is itself an awe-inspiring mystery, one that regularly leads cosmologists to use the term historically applied to the ultimate mystery, i.e.

Upset and hinting that Tuesday's development could be a harbinger of a breakdown in what he characterized as historically "courteous" dealings with the county, Osgood cryptically predicted that "there is going to be a very interesting day coming up here before long."